Laggan
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14785LAG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, basin only
Font Date: ca. 1785?
Font Century and Period/Style: 18th century
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of Laggan
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17827186
Site Location: Argyll and Bute, Scotland, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the Isle of Mull, in the Hebrides; Laggan is located off the A86, at the head of Lochbuie
Font Notes:
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Muir (1873) reportds "the basin of an octagonal font" lying inside a chapel at Laggan {NB: the church is reported to originate in 1785, but we do not know whether the font belongs to that date or to an earlier church or chapel here]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Muir, Thomas S., Ecclesiological Notes on Some of the Islands of Scotland, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1885, p. 26